Richard Carmona on Gun Control

Owning weapons OK if people have good training, education

We want to make sure that anybody who owns a weapon legally has the appropriate training, education, and that we can be assured that society is safe with a person who owns a weapon. We do the same thing for automobiles or any other technology,
if you will, that the average citizen gets to use. We ensure that they can use it safely, because we have to look at the greater good of society.

Source: Democracy Now website
, Jan 11, 2011

Shot while defending hostage from killer, at gunpoint

In 1999 Carmona, a sheriff's deputy and SWAT-team member, encountered a man assaulting a woman. As the Los Angeles Times later explained, Carmona had "stumbled onto a killer who was holding a woman hostage.
The man, who police later determined had stabbed his father to death and was on his way to kill an old girlfriend, grazed Carmona's head with a bullet before the doctor, also a badge-carrying sheriff's deputy, fired a single shot to kill him."